And seems like wailing ghost to tell
Of murders in this shadowy dell.
Then think how from yon dizzy height
Some care-tired soul might wing its flight
Quick from this sad world here below,
And snatch from fate whole years of wo

Or think how on some pelting night
A lone, bewilder'd, wandering wight,
Benighted far away from home,
And left in unknown paths to roam;
Scar'd by the screechowl's boding scream,
Daunted by lightning's livid gleam,
And muttering thunder rolling far,
With hollow sound, and fearful jar,
Might lose his forest-bounded way,
And, heedless of the danger, stray

To where yon pine trees frowning keep
Their watch upon the ridgy steep,

Whence headlong hurl'd, the screaming wight
Finds never end to that long night.

But if inclin'd to sportive mood,

Seek yon rude rock that breaks the flood,

Along whose sides in eddying play,

The azure bubbles speed their way.
And as adown the rapid tide
The little gaudy coxcombs glide,
Sparkling in rays of varying light,
And burst with swelling pride outright;
Think with a smile "such are our beaux,
Who sport awhile their Sunday clothes,
And dazzle us with splendid glare--

Then disappear no one knows where."

Then, goddess! shouldst thou change thy mind,

And be for exercise inclin'd,

See yonder blood red floweret peep,

Just o'er the margin of the steep,

And trembling wave aye here and there

With every gentle breath of air.
Thither, O! Fancy, thou canst flit,
And in its petal careless sit,
Where blithely swinging to and fro,
Sweet airy motion thou wilt know,
Such as the Elfin pack most love
At moonlight in some lonely grove.

If these delights, O! goddess dear,
Can win thy steps to linger here,
Come, and in this my lonely seat,
Thy most enchanting notes repeat.

POETRY.

Charm echo from yon trickling cave,
Call up the river gods that lave
In the pure bosom of the tide,
The Dryads that in woods abide,
And Sylvan lads, from forest rude,
Where pines old maiden solitude,

Who many a nymph from bubbling spring,
Lock'd arm in arm shall with them bring.
Then, if such fellowship might be,
And such stout rivals could agree,
Invite the little Elfin band,

That dance by moonlight hand in hand,
With that same mischief making wight,
Who plays such pranks in summer night-
Mab's jester, who, to please the court
Of fairy queen, makes such rare sport
With dairy maids, and grown up boys,
Addled by love's expected joys--
I mean Dan Puck, who ties the grass
Across the path where schoolboys pass.
Who trip and tumble on their nose,
As many a luckless urchin knows.
And then to grace our rural treat,
A favour'd guest or two shall meet.
Young innocence that knows no guile,
And she who wears the gentlest smile,
With pure simplicity shall join

As welcome guests of yours and mine.
With these we'll spend our blameless time,
In pleasant talk, or careless rhyme;
Nor envy those luxurious wights
Who have no soul for such delights.

GOOD COUNCILS OF CHAUCER.

[Written in the agonies of death.]

Flee from the crowd, and be to virtue true,

Content with what thou hast, though it be small;
To hoard brings hate--nor lofty things pursue:
He who climbs high, endangers many a fall.
Envy's a shade that ever waits on fame,
And oft the sun that raises it, will hide;
Trace not in life a vast expansive scheme,
But be thy wishes to thy state allied.
Be mild to others, to thyself severe--
So truth shall shield thee, or from hurt or fear,
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Think not of bending all things to thy will,
Nor vainly hope that fortune shall befriend;
Inconstant she; but be thou constant still,
Whate'er betide, unto an honest end.
Yet needless dangers never madly brave,
Kick not thy naked foot against a nail;
Or from experience the solution crave,

If well and pitcher strive which shall prevail.
Be in thy cause as in thy neighbour's clear--
So truth shall shield thee, or from hurt or fear.

Whatever happens, happy in thy mind

Be thou; nor at thy lot in life repine;
He 'scapes all ill whose bosom is resign'd,
Nor way nor weather shall be always fine.
Beside, thy home's not here; a journey this;

A pilgrim thou: then hie thee on thy way;
Look up to God, intent on heavenly bliss,

Take what the road affords, and praises pay.
Shun brutal lusts, and seek the soul's high sphere-
So truth shall shield thee, or from hurt or fear.

FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY,

[By the Rev. Mr. Bland.]

I would not change for cups of gold
This little cup that you behold:
'Tis from the beech that gave a shade
At noon-day to my village maid.

I would not change for Persian loom
The humble matting of my room:
'Tis of those very rushes twined
Oft pressed by charming Rosalinde.

I would not change my lowly wicket
That opens on her favourite thicket,
For portal proud, or towers that frown,
The monuments of old renown.

I would not change this foolish heart,
That learns from her to joy or smart,
For his that burns with love of glory,
And loses life to live in story.

Yet in themselves, my heart, my cot,
My mat, my bowl, I value not;
But only as they, one and all,

My lovely Rosalinde recall.

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MR. OGILVIE. This gentleman has returned to the Atlantic cities after about two years' retirement in the western country. During this time he has employed himself in revising his former orations, and in writing several new ones. He has also prepared critical lectures on a new plan, wherein he recites passages from various authors, following each with a critical and philosophical analysis, showing the beauties and defects, and the causes why disgust and pleasure is excited. Since his reappearance he has delivered orations and lectures at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and NewYork, and given great satisfaction.

SELECTED FROM LATE LONDON PUBLICATIONS.

MR. GALT is preparing the second volume of his travels for publication. It will contain, besides his observations on the islands of the Archipelago, an account of his first voyage to the Levant, supplying those details which he purposely omitted in the first volume. In addition to minute circumstantial descriptions of the existing manners, customs, and popular superstitions of the Greeks, Mr. Galt intends to give the substance of a statistical survey of the Cyclades, executed by an agent of the Porte; and will probably also give memoirs relative to recent intrigues in Constantinople, and the British authors of the late war between Russia and Turkey.

During the last three months the public have been gratified by an exhibition of the works of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, at the rooms formerly the Shakspeare gallery in Pall Mall. The owners of many of the principal pictures of that great master having lent their treasures for the purposes of this exhibition, nearly 150 specimens of his transcendent genius have thus been brought into one point of view, and have afforded a high treat to the amateurs of fine painting. Sir Joshua required no better proofs of his divine grace, his accurate discrimination, his disciplined taste, and his powers of executing the happiest conceptions, than are to be found in every variety of composition in this exhibition. All the beauties of the first masters of the Italian and Flemish schools, with few or none of their offensive peculiarities, are to be seen in this assemblage of the original works of our British painter. Modest nature, graceful nature, intellectual nature, never appeared in more pleasing forms, than in the triumph of art afforded by these various works of our illustrious REYNOLDS.

A new novel from the pen of the authoress of Cecilia, Evelina, &c. will appear early in November.

Mr. GODWIN is engaged on a biographical account of John and Edward Philips, the nephews of Milton.

REPORT OF THE PROGRESS OF CHYMISTRY. A series of most interesting experiments upon the radiation of heat, has lately been instituted by Mr. Delaroche, which are at considerable variance with many of the principal conclusions formerly published by Count Rumford in his essays, and by Mr. Leslie, in his very excellent inquiry into the nature of heat, and which have hitherto been deemed incontrovertible. The celebrated Scheele first, we believe, observed the difficulty with which radiant heat made its way through solid bodies, and Mr. Leslie, from the great effect suddenly produced by the interposition of a glass screen between a radiating hot body and a thermometer, was led to conclude that glass is absolutely impermeable to radiant caloric; although at length it is heated by the absorption of caloric, and then becomes a radiating body itself. It is now, however, apparently proved that heat may radiate through glass; but that the rays of heat, like those of light, are of different kinds, some possessing the property of passing through glass more readily than others. Thus the radiant heat which flows from the body of a temperature beneath that of boiling water, is very difficultly transmitted through a glass screen, but as the temperature of the body is increased so is the facility of the transmission of its rays increased; the radiation of heat from

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a hot body to a colder one increasing in a greater proportion than the temperature of the body is increased. From these facts, were it not for the following one, viz. that a thick screen of glass, although as permeable to light as a thinner one, does not so easily afford a passage to calorific rays as a thin screen, we should be tempted to believe that caloric and light are merely modifications of the same substance; light being that state of caloric which is manifested by its producing the sensation termed vision, an opinion many years ago divulged by one of the first chymists of our country, Dr. G. Pearson.

The same Dr. Delaroche has been also honoured with the prize conferred by the French National Institute, for some very important experiment, by which he has ascertained the specific heat of the different gaseous bodies existing in nature, and from which it would appear that the celebrated theories of Lavoisier on Combustion, and of Crawford on Animal Heat, have been founded upon erroneous data.

An immense Galvanic battery has been lately constructed for Mr. Children, of Tonbridge. It consists of 20 pairs of copper and zinc plates, and each pair is enclosed in a separate wooden cell, each plate being in length about six feet, and in breadth two feet eight inches. It is of course possessed of enormous power, and will no doubt afford us many interesting facts.

Mr. MEADLEY, whose Memoirs of Dr. Paley have been so favourably received by the public, has recently been engaged in compiling Memoirs of Algernon Sydney, from various scattered sources of information, which, with an appendix of curions and authentic documents, will be speedily presented to the world.

A series of flowers and fruits, engraved by Mr. Busby from the designs of Madame Vincent, of Paris, is announced, in twelve numbers.

That ingenious mechanic Mr. T. SHELDRAKE has been long engaged on the mcans of impelling vessels on the water by machinery to be set in motion by the human arm, or by the powers of steam, as occasion may require. His design is to produce covered boats which will carry 50 or 60 passengers, and be impelled by two or three men with such velocity as will enable them to make an average passage from Richmond to London in as little time as the stages go in, if not less. This will accommodate the public with a more comfortable conveyance than a stage coach, and at two thirds of the expense. These boats being established, larger ones may be made to be driven by steam, to any extent that may be required. There is a peculiarity in this invention that will be of advantage in every department of inland navigation, even supposing the steam system should not be adopted, by which it is expected that one half the labour that is now expended in every department of inland navigation may be saved, by adding this improvement to the vessels that are at present employed. We learn too, that steam boats are already in use on the river

Aire.

In the ensuing month (October) will be published "Some interesting particulars relative to the arrival and seizure of General Mirandu, and his British staff, in South America; with a brief account of his previous landing from a Falmouth packet, in a British colony under an assumed name, and of his conveyance thence to the Spanish Main, in a British man of war; disclosing an extraordinary instance of imposture and imbecility, which, from the mischievous consequences that already have ensued, and the incalculable disasters that yet may result, demands the seri ous investigation of parliament, and the exemplary punishment of the parties."

Speedily will be published, in two handsome octavo volumes, The Northern Campaigns, embellished with elegantly engraved portraits of the Emperors Alexander and Bonaparte. Illustrated by maps of Russia and Northern Poland; and plans of each particular route of the Russian and French forces, during the advance and retreat of the latter from Moscow. By John Philippart, Esq. In this work will be given a faithful detail of the military events on the continent of Europe, from the commencement of the war between France and Russia, in 1812, to the period of the armistice in 1813.--It will include various foreign state papers, of great and general interest; every important circumstance, political and military, connected with this grand contest; a review of the conduct and principles that in fluence the members of a society established on the continent under the title of the Tugend Bund, or Tugend Veriend; (the United in Virtue;) the proclamations and manifestoes issued by the several chiefs engaged in the struggle; anecdotes relating to Bonaparte and his army during the retreat from Moscow, communicated by offi cers serving in the allied armies; the treaties of alliance, offensive and defensive, entered into between the different powers: and an appendix, containing all the bul letins of Bonaparte published during these campaigns.